Intraorbital implantation of a stimulating electrode for an optic nerve visual prosthesis: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 593-597

  Brelén, Mårten E ^b   De Potter, Patrick ^b   Gersdorff, Michel ^b   Cosnard, Guy ^b   Veraart, Claude ^b   Delbeke, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intraorbital implantation; Neurostimulation; Optic nerve; Retinitis pigmentosa; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SKIN INCISION; SLIT LAMP; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

AGED; BLINDNESS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; ORBIT; ORBITAL IMPLANTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FITTING; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645544190     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.104.4.593     Document Type: Article

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